Job 10 · Verse 18

Job 10:18

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
Job 10:18, King James Version

Job 10:18 in other translations

BSBWhy then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!
WEB“‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
ASVWherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me.
YLTAnd why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.
DARBYAnd wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.
BBEWhy then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,
WebsterWhy then hast thou brought me forth from the womb? O that I had expired, and no eye had seen me!

What does Job 10:18 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 18 Wherefore then - Why didst thou give me a being, when thou didst foresee I should be exposed to such incredible hardships? See on Job 3:10 (note), etc.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 10:14-22

Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy…

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Job 10:18 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְלָ֣מָּהve.La.mahand <to> why?H4100
מֵ֭רֶחֶםMe.re.chemfrom [the] wombH7358
הֹצֵאתָ֑נִיho.tze.Ta.nidid you bring out meH3318
אֶ֝גְוַ֗ע'eg.Va'I expiredH1478
וְעַ֣יִןve.'A.yinand an eyeH5869
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
תִרְאֵֽנִי\׃tir.'E.niit saw meH7200

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 10:18

  • Jeremiah 20:14-18

    Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. …

  • Job 14:10

    But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

  • Job 11:20

    But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall not escape, and their hope shall be as the giving up of the ghost.

  • Job 3:10-11

    Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

  • Jeremiah 15:10

    Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me.

  • Matthew 26:24

    The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
hast thou.
3:10,11; Jer 15:10; 20:14-18; Mt 26:24
given up.
11:20; 14:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 10:17

    Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

  • Job 10:18

    Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

  • Job 10:19

    I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.

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Job 10:18 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		¿Por qué me sacaste de la matriz? Habría yo espirado, y no me vieran ojos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et pourquoi m’as-tu fait sortir du sein de ma mère? J’aurais expiré, et aucun œil ne m’aurait vu!
German
Elberfelder 1871		Warum hast du mich doch aus Mutterleibe hervorgehen lassen? Ich hätte verscheiden, und kein Auge hätte mich sehen sollen!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Quare de vulva eduxisti me? qui utinam consumptus essem, ne oculus me videret.